doctor, lawyer, poker player, physicist: the best engineers we're not competing to hire yet...

Doctor, Lawyer, Poker Player, Physicist.

The Best Engineers We’re Not Competing To Hire Yet.

Hello!@cczona

Doctor Lawyer Poker Player Physicist

Doctor Lawyer Poker Player Physicist

WANTED:

CS degreeWANTED:

–everybody, ever

“…or equivalent”• What does that mean?!

• Do we all agree?!

• Who is filtered out?!

• Does it get what we need?

The Best Engineers We’re Not Competing To Hire Yet.

Jim Weirich

Ruby Community’s CS Teacher-in-Chief

• Rake!

• RubyGems

Jacob Thornton

Bootstrap

English literature

!

!

“A computer is just a regular tool. !It allows you to communicate and do creative things…”

Fabien Potencier

Symfony

Entrepreurship

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Django

Literature!!

Journalist

“Ability to write/communicate effectively is responsible for my career. It’s a myth that ability to write tons of code is all that matters. Real teams need other skills too.”

Ryan Dahl

Node.js

Math

Ryan has unique ability that I rarely see in a Software Engineer. That is, to see things differently. I've seen Ryan question all kinds of things, how a database is written, or a parser, or a web server. He always seem to come up with a different way to look at a problem.

-Brock Whitten, Harp & PhoneGap

Ryan has unique ability that I rarely see in a Software Engineer. That is, to see things differently. I've seen Ryan question all kinds of things, how a database is written, or a parser, or a web server. He always seem to come up with a different way to look at a problem.

-Brock Whitten, Harp & PhoneGap

“WANTED: rock star”

“WANTED:!rock star”

“WANTED:!rock star”

“Type a quote here.”

Amitai Schlair

Degree in Music Team Lead & Developer !15 years

we hack code. and we hack people.

Kerri Miller

Stagehand, Lighting Designer, Set Construction, 12 years

Senior Software Developer !18 years

Eric Rasmussen

Call Center Ops, 6 years Degree in Psychology

Web and Backend Systems Developer

coding is analytical.

Stephan

Oceanographer, 4 years Graduate degree in Physics

Test manager!12 years

Joshua Ballanco

Biochemist, 12 years PhD in Computational Biochemistry

Software Developer!7.5 years

Dan

Degree in Molecular Biology & Degree in Computational Biochemistry

Senior Backend Developer!2 years

coding is a work ethic.

Nicholas Marrone

Police Officer, 8 years Degree in Japanese

Ruby engineer!1/2 year

coding is collaborative.

Allie Jones

Fine Arts / Weaving Developer!5 years

Blithe Rocher

PhD in Physical Chemistry 11 years

Rails intern!1 Year

coding is archaeological.

Diversity Types

Visible!•gender!•race!•age!!

Invisible !• class!• education!• life experiences

disrupt groupthink.

disrupt groupthink.

diversity, because

Danielle Sucher

Lawyer, 7 years Software Engineer

“culture fit” is fear of discomfort.

!

we need the discomfort.

–Joshua Ballanco

concepts into practice.

because money.

sales!profit

because, innovative.

creative!challenge thinking!

synthesize

because, rock stars noooooo.

disagreement can be visible!different approaches are evaluated

because, productive.

paradox: !

effectiveness and belief of effectiveness

–Joshua Ballanco

which skill set is important.

Leon Gersing

Actor/Writer/Director, 10 years Degree in Musical Theater

Software Developer!13 years

crave disruption.Hire for radically, crazy, implausibly, different.

thank you.

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Photo Credits• Whiteboard

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/10690275616!

• Polizei http://www.flickr.com/photos/flik/2517171174!

• Fishing Boat http://www.flickr.com/photos/90369723@N00/8730902405!

• Weaving http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebees/7645824666!

• Spectography http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelphilabcenter/5999031935!

• Theater flatshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kjeik/4383928695!

• Volatile light workshop http://www.flickr.com/photos/110841637@N08/12831365224!

• Jacob Kaplan-Mosshttp://farm5.staticflickr.com/4029/4648185053_aa85c6d33b_o.jpg

• Light Boardhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/72955843@N00/3434919480!

• LinkedIn http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LinkedIn_logo_initials.png !

• Piano Keyshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dgoomany/4976245067!

• Computational Biology chainshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/libertasacademica/7290793400!

• Rotary Phonehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/5467650475!

• Rubber Duckshttp://www.paulandpartners.net/images/rubber_ducks.jpg!

• Diverse Stained Glass Faces http://www.mcgeorgecdo.com/2011/10/celebrate-pacific-mcgeorge-diversity.html!

• Justin Bieber http://gossipdavid.com/2012/06/15/justin-bieber-today-show-concert/